The text in safari all of the sudden looks like this. Any ideas why? Looks like crap.

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I don't know if any of these will work but they might:

1. Click on the "View" menu and hover over the "Text Encoding" menu item until the list of text types pops out--then select the "Default" option
2. Relaunch Safari
3. Open the "Disk Utility" Application and repair permissions on the hard drive patrician that Safari is running on
3. Log out and then back in
4. Check for any software updates
5. Restart the computer

If none of these suggestions fix the problem then try downloading the TinkerTool Application and see if the system texts are different then they should be.

Looks fine for the most part... this site appears ok. Its almosts as if it only looks like that if the font is left up to the system. Firefox and IE display the same pages just fine... its only Safari.

and mine is worse with the fonts it choose. I got my Aliens font in safari, and my metalica font in FireFox. I will try the thigs listed by people, but could you give a step by step for firefox now too.

A couple of other things to try:
- Restart
If still not working:
- From Font Book: Resolve duplicates and verify fonts and files
- Clean font cache (easiest using something like OnyX or MainMenu)
- Restart

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